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i know you have pro answerd this question a million times but i will ask anyway. i have a new 75 gallon aquarium that i plan on housing f8's in. about how many do you think would be safe in it

racer wrote:i know you have pro answerd this question a million times but i will ask anyway. i have a new 75 gallon aquarium that i plan on housing f8's in. about how many do you think would be safe in it

Welcome to the forum. I think you can have six in there.

Welcome!

Welcome. You could have 6. But you would be maxed. Go with 4 and some bbg's

4 sounds nice. I think i have enough filter. Im using two fluval 405?

You want about 10x flow per hour

So your saying i need 750 gph? I believe that the 05 are 340 gph each so i dont have quite enough?

6-10x is recommended so don't worry if you don't have the full 10x

As said above that will be good enough. You will be wise to stick with 4 . Always better to understock

F8s are usually good with tank mates. You could keep a dragon goby or knight gobies, mollies, chromides, glass fish & many more (just not ALL of them!).

I understand alge can be a problem with brackish water. So is their a tank mate better at helping this situation

Mollies.

Also will using ro water help on the alge problem?

Algae has many causes like if a tank is in direct sunlight etc.

RO is not suggested for low-end BW.